Although it sucked so much if you were downloading something like a large (for the time) game and had call waiting or someone picked up a phone in another part of the house. 3 hours down the drain.
Definitely, but there was a time before them. A dark and evil time when your world could be destroyed by a guy calling to sell gutter cleaning services.
I had one, I forget its name, but it was a firewall AND download manager. Bizarre combo if you ask me but it was pretty cool. Its logo was a lightning bolt I think.
In the 2000(s) messengers used to warn you not send phone numbers to your chat correspondents. now without giving out your phone number you can't use those messengers
When "going online" was an evening activity, not a necessity of life
Hey are you off the phone???? I wanna get online!!!!
-Shouted from a different floor where the PC was
Hey get off the phone I want to look at saucy pictures of, um, shut up it's my gravy magazine okay
Going offline is my weekend activity. Time to pile up the firewood for winter.
Although it sucked so much if you were downloading something like a large (for the time) game and had call waiting or someone picked up a phone in another part of the house. 3 hours down the drain.
Download Managers were a god send for that reason.
Definitely, but there was a time before them. A dark and evil time when your world could be destroyed by a guy calling to sell gutter cleaning services.
Or your mam deciding to call her sister for 3 hours even though she just saw her.
It took a very long time to get counter strike
Holy shit. I completely forgot about download managers.
I had one, I forget its name, but it was a firewall AND download manager. Bizarre combo if you ask me but it was pretty cool. Its logo was a lightning bolt I think.
Second house line was a game changer. Literally. It let me play Quake online.
In the 2000(s) messengers used to warn you not send phone numbers to your chat correspondents. now without giving out your phone number you can't use those messengers
Brrrrshh..ooooo...shhhhh...twang! twang!..urrshhhhh.t
Ah yes! I got the twang twang so I got a good connection above 33.6k!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
If you were REALLY cool you would ping people and tell their end to respond with +++ATH0 and suddenly you couldn't ping them any more.
Man, I just used ATM0. I thought I was a l33t haxx0r.
Now I want to set that up on a guest network so they have to listen to that sound before it lets them connect 😂
AT codes are still used in a lot of places.